In Rails - is there a rails method to convert newlines to ?

Question

Is there a Railsy way to convert \\n to
?

Currently, I\'m doing it like this:

mystring.gsub(/\\n/, \'
\')
         


        

Answer 1

You also might consider what you're trying to do - if you're nicely formatting text that people have entered, you might consider a filter like Markdown to let your users format their text without opening up the can of worms that is HTML. You know, like it is here at Stack Overflow.